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Harlequins.
Juan Gris 1923.
Picasso 1927.
Dalí 1927.

The preoccupation of early modernists with harlequins can feel perplexing or even annoying. We don't speak that visual language anymore and if you search online for why they chose harlequins so often you won't get much satisfaction. But we may recognize our own function if not the particulars. Harlequins represented duality, but more, in that pre-tv generation they carried pathos and nostalgia for a lost age. Plus graphic argyles.

Yesterday's stream was full of color theory and exploration of limited palettes... with a teeny tiny landscape painting you see in the middle.

Although the colors are bright, they can be used to create beautiful muted mixes too. And painting lots of nature, it's what I enjoy.

It's my palette I currently take on the go too!

#WaterColor#colortheory#art

Comparisons.

Karl Stanley Benjamin. ~1976.
O'Keeffe. Portrait of a Day - 2nd Day, 1924.
Picasso. Still Life with Fish, 1923.
Kurt Schwitters. Blue, 1923-6.

The recent comparison posts are because I was playing a NYT wordgames app until last week when one of the clues promoted Tesla Cybertruck. I deleted the app immediately, but one of the best activities had been an association game. It interested me how my brain works through such contrasts. So I'm making my own association games!

Van Gogh. Still Life with an Earthen Bowl and Potatoes, 1885.

He went through a whole thing for potatoes, but this is my favorite. In arrangement and feel it also resembles his Still Life with Quinces and a few others. These are not the Van Goghs you generally see out roaming around on posters and coffee mugs. You have to look for them, but they're just as arresting. The background seems to play as big a role as the subject matter here.

Earle W. Richardson. Employment of Negroes in Agriculture, 1934.

This one stunning New Deal #painting is all he left. He killed himself the next year at 23, after the death of his more famous lover Malvin G. Johnson - though Johnson's far longer Wiki entry does not mention his personal life at all. Someone should fix that.

Having grown up around actual cottonpickers, I have trouble with the glorification in this image, but I try to see it as the nobility of labor and race, not as a good time.